What does your 9 month old eat?

[fellyjish]

Hoping others can help... I don't know if I'm feeding 9 month DS enough! He's increasingly refusing milk...

A typical day is as follows:

7am - 3-4oz milk
8am - breakfast - two desert spoons dry readybrek with half a pouch fruit and enough milk to make it the right consistency
11am - sometimes milk - usually no more than 2oz, sometimes will drink up to 5oz!
12.30 - lunch - typically a whole pouch or two big ice cubes (the annabel karmel recommended ones) of slop with a petit filous or other desert and some banana.
15.30 - attempt milk again but usually won't have more than 1oz
17.15 - dinner - very similar to lunch (he'll have some veg as well at least one of the meals)
19.30 - 6oz milk (but often essentially a dream feed)
22.30 6oz milk dream feed

What do your little ones eat? I'm thinking he may prefer a snack instead of 11 and or 15.30 feeds but what is healthy and not horrendously messy?!

At 9mo, she was entirely on 'proper' food and sharing our meals, so you might want to start introducing proper food that's not purées.

So an example day would be like:

Breakfast: Scrambled egg/pancakes/fruit salad/overnight oats

Lunch: sandwich/pinwheels/muffins/peanut butter wraps/ usually with sticks of cucumber and peppers, or some avocado, etc.

Then dinner: tuna pasta, spaghetti bolognaise, roast chicken with veg, lasagne, fishfingers with peas, mac and cheese

Mess is just part of the process, unfortunately!

Mine is seven months and nursery (and therefore now me) are doing snack + milk at 11 and 3, if that's any help.

I think you're just going to have to roll with the snack mess though, I have a sheet that goes under the highchair and I give him crackerbread, toast, pancakes, mandarin segments, bananas, melty stick and rice cakes as snack foods. Yoghurt if he's in the mood to let me spoon feed him. It's carnage. Gleeful carnage.

Thanks.

@DesLynamsMoustache (love the username!!) he does sometimes have scrambled egg or omlette fingers or a sandwich but less often...should really make more of an effort (seems to be easier to batch cook different slop which is generally either puréed or mashed).

@Amrythings how much is a snack though? Unsure of portion size and don't want to over feed him! How much of a banana or how many rice cakes? Think I'll have to be less lazy and bib and high chair him for snacks too!

My 7 month old doesn't have teeth yet, how are previous posters feeding your children these dinners? Are you blending them or something different?

Dd2 is 9 months so for comparison today's menu

7.30 1x weetabix with whole milk, half a banana
9.30 7oz formula
12pm 1 scrambled egg, 2 tablespoons beans and half a piece of toast, 1 satsuma
2.30pm 7oz formula
5.15pm will have vegetable lasagne with garlic bread, and strawberries for dessert
7.30pm 7oz formula and bed
1-4am will wake at some point and drink 5-7oz

She also has 6oz water throughout the day.

Their gums are super hard. Have a feel! For a lot of stuff, teeth are not required. Sandwiches, eggs, pancakes, pasta - none of it requires teeth.

Ds1 didnt get his first tooth until 14 months but ate a Christmas dinner when he was 8 months, Turkey and all

@fellyjish He eats as much as he wants. When it starts being flung on the floor/rubbed in his hair/smoothed round the tray that's enough.

Usually I just give him a small banana broken in three and let him get in. About half of it actually goes in, I think. Rice cakes and melty sticks he gets the packet portion if they're baby ones or one if it's an adult rice cake. One pancake or half a slice of toast, and it was a whole orange yesterday. He's a mad eater.

@lsquiggles He's got two bottom teeth now, but before that he was just gumming things to death. His wee friend hasn't any teeth yet and somehow inhales whole bananas, it's impressive.

Also the chewing teeth don't come until much later anyway. The front teeth aren't much use for chewing food, just for tearing pieces off. But aside from stuff like uncooked carrot or other crunchy stuff, there's not that much babies can't manage with their gums!

My DD is 10 months and I follow Joe Wicks (Weanin 15 on Instagram) which may help you. I don't think babies need snacks this young though OP.

My DD diet is usually this:

6-7am - 8oz bottle of milk

9-10 - 1 weetabix with full fat milk and fruit like raspberries, blackberries or blueberries. Or porridge with fruit. Or Toast with Avacado or butter depending what I have in! Along with scrambled eggs.

12-1 - omelette fingers with veg and green beans / pasta and veg with tomato sauce / egg muffins / whatever I'm having for lunch - chicken wrap etc. I'm just mindful of sugar and salt

2-4 - 8oz bottle of milk

5-6 - very mild coconut based curries with rice and lots of veg / salmon fish fingers and sweet potato and broccoli along with full fat greek yoghurt / spag Bol / lasagna / tomato and spinach risotto

7-7.30ish 8oz bottle of milk

There is a lot of mess but she prefers to feed herself now. I did mash a lot of beforehand not overly though and my DD is good with lumps considering she still has no teeth! Babies gums are a lot more powerful than you think.

I really do recommend weaning 15 on Instagram though!

Interesting @HalfBloodPrincess your DD is having way more milk but a similar amount of food... good point about water though, I don't think I offer him water often enough, have only been doing it at meal times!

Thanks @Amrythings again good point, it's quite clear when he has had enough at other meal times so of course snacks are the same.

Some of this is common sense but my brain has melted being on mat leave!

@fellyjish it's only been within the last 2/3 weeks that shes upped her milk intake - shes finally cut her 2 top teeth and is also having a growth spurt so probably due to either/or both of those

Ohh watching with interest for meal ideas, I seem to feed my 8 month old DS the same sort of stuff each day. He is big hungry boy and usually eats:

Still has a night feed about 5am -6oz milk so never seems to want milk when he wakes up about 8:00

08:30 - 1 weetabix with whole milk, quarter of a banana
11:00 6oz (takes 4 or 5) milk then nap
12:30 scrambled egg made with 1 egg and butter
15:00 offer 6oz milk but might take about 4oz

5:30 dinner, whatever we are having. Last night I gave him home made bolognese mixed with cheese and some avocado. Tonight we are having salmon but he didn't seem to like that last time I offered so he might have the same as last night. Then I wait half an hour and offer one of the ellas kitchen Greek yoghurt pouches which he usually takes.

I also offer snacks through the day, usually sliced banana with peanut butter, cucumber, or those melty carrot sticks. He eyes up whatever I snack on too so I usually let him taste stuff. He had a nasty D&V bug last week and only ate quavers for about 3 days!

I think it's portion size I worry about the most. He eats a pretty good variety of stuff (although good kick up the bum here to not just default to mash/slop because it's easier for me!)

He's a big boy (91st/98th centile) and i have been overweight for years (dealing with it at the moment) so worried I'll do the same to him!

In all honesty his milk should still be the main part of his feeding. Have you tried giving it in a sippy cup rather than bottle?

Yep @Bloocy tried a couple of different silly cups as well as his bottle. Tried handles on his bottle so he can do it himself. On a bad day/week only reliable way is to do it whilst he's asleep!

Sippy not silly!

At nine months mine was eating proper lunches and dinners, usually same as us and would sit at the table in high chair. There were no bottles or breast feeding at that stage, he drank out of a cup or glass. Enjoyed yogurt and some fruit, cheese etc. Why do you try to feed when he's asleep? If he was hungry/thirsty he'd moan, sleep is for sleep.

My daughter is nearly 9 months.

Breakfast is typically porridge (ready brek) with banana and/or mashed raspberries; toast with peanut butter and banana; crumpet with butter and fruit. Have also tried Shreddies and rice Krispies but a bit hit and miss.

Bottle mid morning

Lunch is sandwich or wrap cut into strips (fillings are usually cheese, plain or with cucumber/tomato/grated carrot, or tuna mayo or egg mayo); scrambled egg on toast; cheese on toast; beans on toast; cheese omelette. Usually served with cucumber and tomato 'fingers'. Followed by fruit and sometimes a baby snack like those puff things or rice cakes

Bottle mid afternoon

Dinner is usually what we have so spaghetti Bolognese, (mild) curry & rice, chilli con carne etc.

Bottle at bed time.

Today she has had:
6am: 6oz of milk
7am: peanut butter on toast, banana
11am: bottle
12.30: cheese wrap, cucumber and tomato, rice cakes, raspberries
3.30pm: took about 4oz of milk
5pm: spaghetti Bolognese with tenderstem broccoli. Yoghurt.

Yesterday was:
7am: bottle (7oz)
8am: porridge with banana
Bottle mid morning
12ish: Jacket potato with beans and cheese, kiwi
Bottle mid afternoon
Dinner: chicken goujons, wedges, peas, broccoli. Orange segments. Yoghurt.

So, following on from this - I have increased snacks and ensured DS has water available to him at all times.

Now he won't drink milk at all!! Today he has had 90ml/3oz and that's it!

Has anyone had this before? I am making sure he has lots of dairy products for the calcium but I'm really concerned about his fluid intake.

Anyone experienced this?!

Hiya :)

My son James has

Bfast ... Cereal or toast

Mid morning milk 8oz

Lunch ... Bread,ham, cheese,jam,cheese spread, skips,quavers fruit or yoghurt, things like that

Mid afternoon milk 8oz

Dinner... What ever we have ( within reason)

He has no night time bottle, but he isn't fussed and sleeps right though

Every child is different though and it sounds like your child is happy? One piece of advise though, he is old enough to have proper solids now :) good luck xx